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Why medical training raises questions about patient consent

I'm a medical student and during my rotation I realized I've been practicing procedures on unconscious patients without their specific consent because that's just how it's always done here.

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The machinery of medical education runs on assumptions about patient bodies that would be unthinkable in any other context.

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